Mystery
THE APPREHENSIVE DOG ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-294, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained terra cotta, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, white endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
BLACK LAND WHITE LAND.
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel.
THE CAT'S WHISKER ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-223, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK in 1945 by Macdonald as DEAD MAN'S EFFECTS. Mr. Fortune investigates murder and sabotage during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE LIFE SENTENCE ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-6 [7-9] 10-250 [251-252: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
MEET MR. FORTUNE: A REGGIE FORTUNE OMNIBUS.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-546 [547-548: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in red, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. An omnibus volume collecting a novel, THE BISHOP'S CRIME (1940) and twelve stories featuring Reggie Fortune, plus "Mr. Fortune," an essay by Bailey introducing his fictional sleuth. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2336. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
MR. CLUNK'S TEXT.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-303 [304-306: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE VERON MYSTERY (1939). Hubin (1994), p. 42.
MR. FORTUNE FINDS A PIG.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-269 [270: blank], original blue gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Mr. Fortune investigates a mysterious outbreak of typhus fever in a remote village in Wales during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
ORPHAN ANN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-307 [308-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE LITTLE CAPTAIN (1941). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-299 [300: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. The fourth novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as CLUNK'S CLAIMANT (1937). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE WRONG MAN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. Hubin (1994), p. 42.
A KEY TO FREDRIC BROWN'S WONDERLAND: A STUDY AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent).
DEATH STOPS THE BELLS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MY FIRST MURDER.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
CHIEF TALLON AND THE S.O.R.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.
New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row Publishers, [1965]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Introduces the character of Virgil Tibbs, and the basis for the feature film. This copy's text has been marked up to block out set ups for the script of the film. Edgar Award winner for best first novel. Hubin, p. 44.
DEALING OUT DEATH.
Philadelphia, David McKay, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Bill Lennox hard boiled novel, set in Las Vegas. Ballard was a Black Mask writer. Hubin, p. 652.
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
FLYING DEATH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald.
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47.
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47.
THE LAST OF PHILIP BANTER.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's second mystery novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams..." - Pederson (ed.): The St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.), pp. 47.
THE C. I. D. OF DEXTER DRAKE.
New York: J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., Publishers, [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-302 [303-304: blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. Consulting detective Dexter Drake with his sidekick Paul Howard, who narrates the stories, solves crimes. In the guise of a novel this is a collection of stories. The second of three books to feature Drake. Hubin, p. 49. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 10.